The Boers at the End of the World

The Boers at the End of the World (2015)

In remote Patagonia, a 100-year-old community of Afrikaans Boers struggles to keep their language and culture alive, while longing to be reunited with their distant families in South Africa.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2015-08-05
  • User Rating: 10/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 25min
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Production Company: A GOOD Work
  • Production Country: South Africa
  • Director: Richard Finn Gregory
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Summary

In a remote stretch of Patagonia, Argentina, there is a family - the Dickasons - who speak a language from a country 7,000km to the east. They are part of a 114-year-old Afrikaans Boer community - South Africans of Dutch descent who sailed across the ocean to South America after the destruction of a war with the British. Today, less than 50 still speak the language and they struggle to keep their culture alive. Patriarch "Ty" Dickason, 82, is a cowboy who has never flown in a plane - and yet he yearns to one day visit the country of his blood before he and his compatriots pass away. This multiple SAFTA award-winning documentary is a portrait of the last days of the community - a parallel world where Afrikaans was never linked to Apartheid - and one family's journey to reconnect with South Africa.

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Production Kelly Scott Producer
Directing Richard Finn Gregory Director
Camera Richard Finn Gregory Director of Photography
Editing Ronelle Loots Editor
Editing Richard Finn Gregory Editor
Sound Louis Nel Original Music Composer
Sound Rian Zietsman Original Music Composer
Sound Daniel Eppel Sound Designer

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